Skinless. No, not me.

Sometimes I wish I’d chosen Acer instead of Fujitsu for my laptop. Today was the collection day for the laptop skins for Acer laptops. When students bought their laptops, there were these forms inside which the could fill up to get a free laptop skin. Unfortunately, Fujitsu laptop owners don’t have this privilege. They looked so cool! I just want it on MY laptop. Especially if its a skin based on Spiderman. I found this one the net, but blogger is annoyingly having some sorta problem that won’t let me post pictures. Ugh. Its on auction for US$9.90 right now. I’m broke. And I so want it!

If I would have to choose a skin, I’d have it based on Spidey, and I’d have it no other way. Sadly, even if my laptop were an Acer laptop, I wouldn’t apply for a skin, because they had only 6 designs to offer, none of those designs had anything concerned with Spiderman and applying for a different design would cost me big. Either way, it was lose-lose. Haiz.

I need a skin! Sounds wrong.

Delay

There is a 24-hour delay in my blog publishing. At least it’s so on my computer. This post will probably be seen tomorrow morning or later. Not much has been going on these days. Although quite a bit went on yesterday.

This is a new blogskin, not made by me, of course. Its from the Spider-man movie network. They had these Spider-man 3 templates for blogger and of course, being the fan that I am, I just had to get my hands on one of them to be my new blog template. And now, this is my new blog! I’m not going to change it until after the Spider-man 3 movie opens in theatres. Heh. I still haven’t fitted this blog with my friend’s links. So, I got a bit to do now.

Later!

I posted this later because I forgot about it. It’s Valentine’s Day, and another lonely day for us singles. I don’t know if I’ve met my other half yet, but I sure hope she comes along soon. Actually it wasn’t such a bad day for me. My job was over just yesterday and today I went out with my friends swimming in the swimming pool at the condominium where Anthony lives. There was even a jacuzzi and sauna. We used both, heh.

It was a refreshing and fun time at his place, after which we went to MacDonalds. We were just mostly cracking jokes, chatting about games all the way. I wasn’t entitled to a cheaper MacDonald student meal, but I just asked for one anyway, and it worked, heh! I guess I do look like a student. Haha.

We were all kinda sloggish from the swimming and the meal. At the bus stop we waited for service 157 to come to take us to Pan Long’s house. And, all five of us didn’t manage to see and flag down the bus in time. It was like some comedy. We just watched the bus zoom by with no sign of slowing down in the least. Haha. From then on we kept on looking out for the next 157. One funny incident was that one of the buses that stopped at the bus stop(not 157), had and advertisement all over it on shampoo. This lady’s face was part of it(it kinda covered the whole bus anyway). And right in the middle of here forehead we saw a hole. It wasn’t supposed to be on her face, just that someone cut out a small circle at the part and it looked hilarious. No picture, sorry. Haha.

Last time I had a date for Valentine’s Day was quite a while back during Secondary 3. I won’t talk about it, heh. Besides, no Valentine doesn’t mean the end of the world. It only means that you’re still available and waiting for the One.

Get a load of my new blogskin based on the new hit tv series-Heroes. Somehow, I don’t get a good feeling about this new one… But, I guess it goes with the show. If you haven’t been watching tv or reading the newspapers, I’ll give you a summary on the show.

It’s about people all over the world waking up one day to find out that they have new special abilities. That’s about it. Heh. Watch it.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Its been an eventful year, with our ‘O’ levels. But that is now the past! A new time dawns upon us! On the 27th of December, I went for a BBQ at East Coast Park with the NPCC group. It was a successful BBQ as the food was cooked nicely. Benson was the one cooking the chicken wings and Elton cooked the sausages. We got the fire going quickly and strongly. Although sudden downpour came 3 times, the wet-weather-plan was a success. Using a poncho and some twine, a shelter for the BBQ pit was erected. Since not all of us had ponchos’, those who weren’t cooking went to the shelter a few steps away. In that shelter, we waited for the food and played cards and music. The rain wasn’t really that strong most of the time, which what the ‘cooks’ were thankful for. After most of the food was cooked, the cooks themselves had a feast. It was a load of food, and it was good. Benson, Gilbert, and Soon Heng bought cans of beer to drink. Well, I don’t know what’s so nice about drinking beer but to them, it seemed like fun. They enjoyed it too. Later, when I was clearing up the BBQ pit area, I finished clearing everything except for the BBQ pit which was still blazing hot. 2 water bottles were emptied into the pit but the charcoal still wouldn’t cool down much. We then had an idea. The styrofoam box containing drinks were emptied of everything except for the ice(one big block) and ice water. Benson removed the ice first and then dumped the one-eight full box of ice water onto the charcoal. Steam was everywhere and still the charcoal wouldn’t stop sizzling. But at least it had cooled down. The big block of ice was then placed onto the pit to try to cool the pit down one last time. At that time, the time for the night cycle was here. So, we tried to cool it down some more by placing smaller pieces of ice on it.

The night cycle was somewhat, tiring and at the same time fun. The trip out of East Coast and back had its ups and downs, literally. There were uphill slopes that we had to climb at the beginning of the ride and if we didn’t gain enough speed at the start, it wouldn’t be enough to carry us up to the peak. On the first slope I did manage to gain enough speed to carry on, but I was blocked off by Elton, so I just got off and pushed my bike onwards. My legs just melted when I tried to stand upright. The downhill slopes back to the park we frighteningly and excitingly fast.

When we returned, we went to Macdonalds first. Benson, Gilbert and Yik Jiun still wanted to watch the sunrise, but the others were too tired and I was too hungry. So the 3 of them cycled to Changi while we played cards again. I had a Fillet-O-Fish meal first because my stomach was growling like a tiger. Turns out, they didn’t really see the sunrise, just a couple of planes. Haha. At 8am we went to return our bikes at the bike shop. The bike uncle was late. Beside the bike shop was a bar where a fight was taking place. I didn’t really see much, but my Elton said he saw someone smash another’s head with a jug. Ouch. The police came 10 minutes later. And then there was the joke made by Elton about television’s drama cops where they come to the scene of the crime in 5 minutes flat instead. We had been conned by TCS and Mediacorp for the past 16 years. Haha. After all that, it was already around 9am which was when the bike uncle came. We bade goodbye to each other and headed home.

I’m working at the Bee Cheng Hiang in Junction 8. Standing there in the shop, telling customers about our promotions and products. Its really boring and time passes like stagnant air. I found out that God sometimes shows his sense of humour. Yesterday, when it was around 6pm, I made a silent prayer asking for the time to be 6.30pm so I know that time was moving forward fast enough. I looked at my handphone for the time and it read 6.13pm. I wonder if my pronounciation in my silent prayer had been off. Although the pay is relatively good($5/hour), I can’t stand the boredom well and I’m not very good at talking to customers. I often stutter and make mistakes. I’m having second thoughts about this job. What am I to do?

I went for an interview yesterday, at Poh Leng building. It was an offer from Gerlynn’s Mom’s company Bee Cheng Hiang for a telemarketing or sales assistant temporary postition. Or rather it was me looking for the job. I got the sales assistant position and I’m going to work at the branch at Junction 8. Today I’m going there for the first time, and learn new things from 2pm to 8pm. There was the NP campfire last night too. Sadly, it wasn’t up to our expectations. By ‘our’ I mean the previous batch NCOs’, which is my batch. What’s more, it had to rain. That was the worst. The wet weather plan was also, practically unplanned. After all that, my batch of NCOs’ along with Yu Ning, went to Bradell Mac to eat and chat, discussing about the campfire and the forthcoming BBQ. Like old times.

This is my 100th post of this blog! Ah, so what. Nothing up with that. Well, I’ve not been doing much these days, except playing computer games and going to Pan Long’s house. I feel like I’m lead a boring life so far. Watched Monk today. Adrian Monk still that ever obsessive-compulsive detective. A genius at detail and extremely meticulous. His wife, Trudy, died in a car bombing and because of that, he suffers from conditions due to the traumatic stress. Adrian has developed phobias of heights, dirt, needles, rats, insects, and even milk. Oh well, you have to watch it to believe it. Haha. I was in an NP meeting today. And it was hilarious. Yong Siong was sitting on a bench in the canteen. He was holding the umbrella Kiat Siang lent to him earlier with it’s bottom up, under his chin. Then, all of a sudden, the butt of the umbrella shot out and hit his chin. It was funny, and everyone just broke out laughing. But, the shocking part is that his chin started to bleed! There was a small gash in his chin and blood was dripping. Someone suggested asking the General Office for a first aid kit. But what were we going to say? Someone got hit by an umbrella? Haha. But in the end, we got some plasters and his chin stopped oozing blood. Incredible.

Woke up in the morning to go to Toa Payoh. The NCOs’ from my batch are going back to school to plan a campfire, one that we were promised to by the Teacher-in-charge of NPCC-Miss Fauziah. It was typical NPCC outing of discussion. Ruo Hui, Chloe, Rena, Teck Guan, Zambri, Benjamin, Irfan, Kiat Siang, Gilbert and Benson were there. At the same time, they discussed the activities that were going on in the camp they were organising. But of course, the campfire we were planning was part of their camp too. Benson and I suggested different ways of lighting the campfire. He thought of a catapult and then a glider. I thought of a pendulum. I know, I know, we are mad. But, mad for a good cause. There were many activities thought up, such as the Amazing Race. The campers will have to solve riddles and get to the different checkpoints in the around the school. I volunteered to think of riddles to represent the different places. So far, I have nothing on the drawing board, but I have faith that I will be able to think of riddles. After the meeting, Benson, Gilbert and I headed over to Toa Payoh to play pool. Heh. We played against each other at first, with the loser being kicked out. This went on for about 4 rounds, then Benson decided to team up with me to play against Gilbert who beat the both of us individually. But still, we lost! Oh well, it was just a game.

Later, I headed over to Gerlynn’s house to watch Princess Hours. Kind of a birthday gift. I had nothing much to do during the holidays so far. So far, I’ve got up to the second episode. Its not boring, but neither is it a favourite of mine. I guessed it wouldn’t hurt watching it. After all that, I went home, and here I am. Life is kinda getting a little less boring now. It still is better than dull, repetitive school. Going to touch up my new layout!

Get a load of my new blogskin! I made this myself. Got some inspiration from… Eh… Nothing really… This skin is based on the hit series ‘House’ which I posted on one or two posts back. I had a bit of trouble getting the coordinates right for the different sections at first. But, in the end, I managed to get it done. Excruciatingly that is… I gotta say, this is my first skin and I’m thinking its quite good for a beginner. Haha. But of course, who doesn’t think their own creations are good? Haha. Going to make a few changes here and there later. In the meantime, I’m just going to slack.